This is an analysis of the poem No End Of No-Story that begins with:

There is a river
whose waters run asleep...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXcbcccXcDDddXcaacCefFgghhfFfiihhjJjjjjjeffhhaahbBbbhhcCkeeeeeeeXehhllllbBXccjjCbMmjJkkaacaajCjjjjjfjejfjecacCDDdenennaaNNcXccCacCbBMccmmibijjbceXcCcCXoocXeCaAcccCppbBjjjjaacccCXcaddeeNNnaAccccbBmmqqjjehhCXCkknn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 213,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010 110101 1110 100010 10010 1011 11010 11110 0010 10010 101010 10111 00111 001011 01111 01010010 110010 01010 01010 1010 101010 1101010 1111010 1010110 0101 1111 01010010 10101010 11110 1010110 0010010 0100111 10101 0011010 101110 0101 10111 10110 0110 0001 101 00111 1111010 11010 001110 1010110 01010 001010 11110 10110 11101 01101 1011 1101 110010 11010 0010010 010110 11111 11111 11101 11111 11001 11111 111001 11001 101010 111001 10110 11110 111110 101110 101110 11110 101001 01101 00101 10101 10101 01001 1010011 101111 10101 00101 101001 11101 10111 11111 001011 101010 11110 101101 110110 01010 11110 101111 110110 1111 010110 110010 1111 010110 1101 1111 1010110 01110 010110 11011 110010 01010 11010 101010 10111 00111 00111 11111 111001 10101 1001 0101 111010 10110 1111 1101 111010 110010 11010 1111 10111 00010 11101 10111 0001 01101 00101 101001 1101 1011 0101 10101 101101 1001 1111 01111 11001 01101 1001 10110 11001 10111 10010 10010 110010 11011 10111 00010 11010 11010010 10111 0010010 11110 110010 11010 11010 010110 110110 010110 11001 01101 11011 111011 110110 11010 101010 11110 101110 011010 1010110 01010 10010 1011 010010 1101 10101 11101 111101 1111 1101 11001 110010 11110 111010 1010 11010 01110 1101 01101 11011 101001 01001 01001 11001 11111 1101010 10110 111010 10010 110010 01010 1111 10111 11001 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 907
  • Amount of lines: 213
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; run, they, and, as, it, wind are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and, they are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, them, lambs, wind are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of No End Of No-Story;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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